?So a salary is a bribe, right? As is the monthly fee that I pay to the satellite company, right? Pull your head out of your ass, moron.
I know I shouldn't reply to users whose comments start at -1 by default... but yes. Salary is a way of bribing you to use your intelligence to benefit the corporation instead of yourself. The monthly fee you pay the satellite fee is a bribing them not to sue you for receiving their signal (which you can do without paying them -- they blast the signal through your skull 24/7, after all -- but that's "illegal" under the DMCA).
I'm thinking that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
But if you want want that is tested and stable, one needs to purchase an expensive yearly maitenance fee for each computer it is installed on.
People do charge money for "tested" Linux distros, but only because they think people will pay for it. There are plenty of "tested and stable" Free distros, like Debian GNU/Linux. If you don't know Linux, though, it's cheaper to pay RedHat to support it than to have an in-house Linux guru.
It may look like Microsoft and Mac OS X are easier to support, but that's not the case. All of the major OSes will cause you trouble if you don't know what you're doing. You're screwed no matter which you pick.
My IT consultant put FireFox on my computer and it looks like another switchero is in the works. With the members founding a corporation, it looks like they will start charging for the good version and leave the a "starter" version for the non-paying customers.
What?
So is the business model of open-source to bait people with free software when their software isn't as good as the commercial offerings, and when it does become good or they get enough people on board, do they just jack up the prices as much as possible?
I guess you could say that. The business model of other software companies (in your words), would be "to bait people with overpriced software when their software isn't as good as it could be" and then charge you oodles for support, too. Look at Microsoft Windows. $200 a seat, and it's total shit. But since everyone else uses it, everyone uses it. That's a good business model... almost as convenient as having money rain on you.
However, the point of open source software is that you can pay whoever you want to support the software. Want to add a feature to Firefox? You can pay the developers, maybe, but you can also hire someone else (with perhaps a better price) to do it for you. Compare this to having a feature added to Internet Explorer, which just plain won't happen.
> Many young idealists who set out to create an alternative to the tech Establishment now find themselves becoming part of it.
If they realy care about idealism, they won't sell. I think if M$ offered RMS a billion dollars for the FSF, he would refuse. (Mostly because he is slightly insane, but in a good way:)
How? After we Americans finish crapping up this planet with Hummer exhaust and soda cans, we're going to need a new planet to destroy... erm... live on. (Mars is the closest, and it has a hard outer shell suitable for drilling oil, so it's a good candidate for Earth's replacement. Plus the atmosphere doesn't melt lead.)
Actually, I'm surprised the politicians didn't pick Jupiter -- it's the only thing in the solar system that's more "full of hot air" than them!
The point is, you thought of the first way, so you get exclusive rights to that way. I liked the whole 1+1 thing, so I came up with 3 more ways, that are mine now.
To keep this relevant, RIM should have said, "OK sure, you have those patents. We thought of a different way to do this. Bye." In fact, they did think of a different way to solve the problem, and they had it in place. They should have told NTP to go fuck itself (or sync their clocks with public time servers, sorry, couldn't resist).
I enjoy articles like this, and I actually pay for slashdot. Maybe the editors are embracing "voting with your wallet", a phrase that comes up in nearly every article.
Come back when you figure out how to create an account.
> A part of being a good student is actually UNDERSTANDING THE ASSIGNMENT and doing it.
Part of being a successful mindless cubicle drone is "actually UNDERSTANDING THE ASSIGNMENT and doing it". Part of being an academic is doing things for no reason other than to learn, or to do something new.
Maybe at whatever community college you attended this is a strategy for success, but at a real university "just doing it" gets you Cs.
> People in the boondocks would never have mail service, because the Free Market wouldnt support it.
Incorrect. FedEx and UPS will happily deliver to the boondocks -- maybe not every day, but you'll get your package. Neither FedEx nor UPS are the government -- they compete with each other, so the day one decided to deliver to the boondocks was the day the other had to provide better service to the boondocks or face going out of business. The government could completely ignore the boondocks and would never go out of business -- they're the government.
> The Internet would not be here.
Admittedly NTT was government subsidized at one time, but the private DSL industry in Japan has innovated far more than the FCC-regulated telcos here in America. When I was in Japan 5 years ago, I had 10M and VoIP for $20 a month. Here in the US, I pay $75 a month for 1.5/384 (and no phone service).
The same applies to cell-phone companies. There's so much government-mandated red tape here in the US that we're at least 5 years behind everyone else. Again, 5 years ago I had a better phone in Japan than I do here in the US -- for less money. (OK, so calls are cheaper. But I never call anyone.)
All in all, I don't see how the government helps anyone. I say overthrow it:)
Interestingly, pediatricians go through a lot more schooling than "plain old" doctors. (Not that that isn't a lot to begin with... but after you get past 8 years+ of school, you're probably doing the job because you're good at it and you want to do it, not just because it pays well.)
This is not correct. In Galoob v. Nintendo, the court ruled that the Game Genie was allowed to use the copyrighted word "Nintendo" for purposes of interoperability.
The end result is that it would be perfectly legal for AMD to say their chips are "Intel" if it allows AMD chips to interoperate with Intel-only software. (Like Skype.) This happens all the time -- look at the browser ID strings for MSIE and Safari -- they both claim to be "Mozilla (compatible)", even though Mozilla is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation (and the only browsers that are Mozilla are SeaMonkey and Firefox).
Let's try a better one: Imagine that you are walking down the street in a commercial area. You notice that the name of a store is "Jewel", because it has a big sign on it that says so. You walk a block and see "Pizza Hut". You continue your walk and see "Swim Café". Finally, you walk past "Pie Eyed Pizzeria" and note that its door has fallen off its hinges.
What does this mean? This proves that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
I run a number of web servers, and basically, you can configure the server identification string to be whatever the hell you want. My httpd on OpenBSD says "Apache/1.3.29 Server". Apache on Debian GNU/Linux says, "Apache (Debian GNU/Linux) 1.3.33" by default. The OS returned can be complete bullshit, though. If I wanted, I could make my Apache running on OS X say, "Microsoft IIS (Windows 2003 Server) 1.3.37". To summarize, the string that is returned every time is both optional and completely arbitrary. If you're using this information to "hack servers", you should consider euthanizing yourself.
There are ways to get better guesses as to what the target OS is, (for example, nmap's OS fingerprinting), but even those can be fooled. Some carefully-chosen iptables rules can make your Linux box look like it's Windows 95 with an uptime of -3 days.
It's a freaking bash configuration file. Every user has one in their "home directory". If they are deviating this far from standard UNIX practices... then... I don't even have anything to say.
You ssh to your account, your.bash_profile loads, you do your work, then you log out. I can't imagine how anyone could not be doing it like this.
> Someone will probably find a way around it, but it's not as silly as you'd think.
I already have. When the bootloader loads the OS, conveniently forget to load the signature-checking code.
This is why TPM is being forced down our throats. When the end user has power over how the computer works, he can do evil things like write his own OS and cut M$ out of the equation. We can't have that, now can we.
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If your Mac is dead Right Now, and you need to use the Pro Apps like Aperture, Logic, Motion, etc. then the iMac G5 is the cheapest option.
> an identification system that can be read remotely and surreptitiously is a friend to no one but evil.
I'd better burn off my face, lest someone recognize me during my commute!
The initial ? in my post was supposed to be a >. I was replying to a person that replied to you, agreeing with you, not him :)
?So a salary is a bribe, right? As is the monthly fee that I pay to the satellite company, right? Pull your head out of your ass, moron.
I know I shouldn't reply to users whose comments start at -1 by default... but yes. Salary is a way of bribing you to use your intelligence to benefit the corporation instead of yourself. The monthly fee you pay the satellite fee is a bribing them not to sue you for receiving their signal (which you can do without paying them -- they blast the signal through your skull 24/7, after all -- but that's "illegal" under the DMCA).
> there was already a case decided involving sega that using a trademark to lock out interoperability is not permitted.
I think you're thinking of Galoob v. Nintendo.
People do charge money for "tested" Linux distros, but only because they think people will pay for it. There are plenty of "tested and stable" Free distros, like Debian GNU/Linux. If you don't know Linux, though, it's cheaper to pay RedHat to support it than to have an in-house Linux guru.
It may look like Microsoft and Mac OS X are easier to support, but that's not the case. All of the major OSes will cause you trouble if you don't know what you're doing. You're screwed no matter which you pick.
What?
I guess you could say that. The business model of other software companies (in your words), would be "to bait people with overpriced software when their software isn't as good as it could be" and then charge you oodles for support, too. Look at Microsoft Windows. $200 a seat, and it's total shit. But since everyone else uses it, everyone uses it. That's a good business model... almost as convenient as having money rain on you.
However, the point of open source software is that you can pay whoever you want to support the software. Want to add a feature to Firefox? You can pay the developers, maybe, but you can also hire someone else (with perhaps a better price) to do it for you. Compare this to having a feature added to Internet Explorer, which just plain won't happen.
> Many young idealists who set out to create an alternative to the tech Establishment now find themselves becoming part of it.
:)
If they realy care about idealism, they won't sell. I think if M$ offered RMS a billion dollars for the FSF, he would refuse. (Mostly because he is slightly insane, but in a good way
How? After we Americans finish crapping up this planet with Hummer exhaust and soda cans, we're going to need a new planet to destroy... erm... live on. (Mars is the closest, and it has a hard outer shell suitable for drilling oil, so it's a good candidate for Earth's replacement. Plus the atmosphere doesn't melt lead.)
Actually, I'm surprised the politicians didn't pick Jupiter -- it's the only thing in the solar system that's more "full of hot air" than them!
True, but do you really want to hang out with a "gas giant"? I think not.
> 1+1=2 right? if I ask you what should I add to 1 to get to 2? how many answers?
There's always more than one way to solve a problem.
1+1 = 10 (base 2)
1+1 = 1 (logical OR)
1+1 = 0 (mod 2)
The point is, you thought of the first way, so you get exclusive rights to that way. I liked the whole 1+1 thing, so I came up with 3 more ways, that are mine now.
To keep this relevant, RIM should have said, "OK sure, you have those patents. We thought of a different way to do this. Bye." In fact, they did think of a different way to solve the problem, and they had it in place. They should have told NTP to go fuck itself (or sync their clocks with public time servers, sorry, couldn't resist).
I enjoy articles like this, and I actually pay for slashdot. Maybe the editors are embracing "voting with your wallet", a phrase that comes up in nearly every article.
Come back when you figure out how to create an account.
> Don't blame the market that you don't have a choice of cable companies, blame your neighbors for creating the monopoly.
Instead of arguing about who to blame, let's just fix the damn problem.
> A part of being a good student is actually UNDERSTANDING THE ASSIGNMENT and doing it.
Part of being a successful mindless cubicle drone is "actually UNDERSTANDING THE ASSIGNMENT and doing it". Part of being an academic is doing things for no reason other than to learn, or to do something new.
Maybe at whatever community college you attended this is a strategy for success, but at a real university "just doing it" gets you Cs.
> Rocket speeds tangential to the cable?
:)
Since the cable is a line, the tangent is the cable. Maybe you meant orthogonal? (Although I'm not really sure what you're talking about
> People in the boondocks would never have mail service, because the Free Market wouldnt support it.
:)
Incorrect. FedEx and UPS will happily deliver to the boondocks -- maybe not every day, but you'll get your package. Neither FedEx nor UPS are the government -- they compete with each other, so the day one decided to deliver to the boondocks was the day the other had to provide better service to the boondocks or face going out of business. The government could completely ignore the boondocks and would never go out of business -- they're the government.
> The Internet would not be here.
Admittedly NTT was government subsidized at one time, but the private DSL industry in Japan has innovated far more than the FCC-regulated telcos here in America. When I was in Japan 5 years ago, I had 10M and VoIP for $20 a month. Here in the US, I pay $75 a month for 1.5/384 (and no phone service).
The same applies to cell-phone companies. There's so much government-mandated red tape here in the US that we're at least 5 years behind everyone else. Again, 5 years ago I had a better phone in Japan than I do here in the US -- for less money. (OK, so calls are cheaper. But I never call anyone.)
All in all, I don't see how the government helps anyone. I say overthrow it
Interestingly, pediatricians go through a lot more schooling than "plain old" doctors. (Not that that isn't a lot to begin with... but after you get past 8 years+ of school, you're probably doing the job because you're good at it and you want to do it, not just because it pays well.)
When you brutally murder someone, 99.9% of the world's population isn't affected. But for some reason, you still go to jail for the rest of your life.
Good students try to do more than is necessary so as to gain a real understanding of the situation.
This is not correct. In Galoob v. Nintendo, the court ruled that the Game Genie was allowed to use the copyrighted word "Nintendo" for purposes of interoperability.
l oob_v_Nintendo.html
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/cases/Ga
The end result is that it would be perfectly legal for AMD to say their chips are "Intel" if it allows AMD chips to interoperate with Intel-only software. (Like Skype.) This happens all the time -- look at the browser ID strings for MSIE and Safari -- they both claim to be "Mozilla (compatible)", even though Mozilla is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation (and the only browsers that are Mozilla are SeaMonkey and Firefox).
> I would probably be sitting in front of my PC 24x7.
You must be new here.
Yes. The constitution has no application to anyone who is not the government.
That is a terrible analogy.
Let's try a better one: Imagine that you are walking down the street in a commercial area. You notice that the name of a store is "Jewel", because it has a big sign on it that says so. You walk a block and see "Pizza Hut". You continue your walk and see "Swim Café". Finally, you walk past "Pie Eyed Pizzeria" and note that its door has fallen off its hinges.
That's what this assignment is equivalent to.
> any mozilla-compatible server
What does this mean? This proves that you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
I run a number of web servers, and basically, you can configure the server identification string to be whatever the hell you want. My httpd on OpenBSD says "Apache/1.3.29 Server". Apache on Debian GNU/Linux says, "Apache (Debian GNU/Linux) 1.3.33" by default. The OS returned can be complete bullshit, though. If I wanted, I could make my Apache running on OS X say, "Microsoft IIS (Windows 2003 Server) 1.3.37". To summarize, the string that is returned every time is both optional and completely arbitrary. If you're using this information to "hack servers", you should consider euthanizing yourself.
There are ways to get better guesses as to what the target OS is, (for example, nmap's OS fingerprinting), but even those can be fooled. Some carefully-chosen iptables rules can make your Linux box look like it's Windows 95 with an uptime of -3 days.
It's a freaking bash configuration file. Every user has one in their "home directory". If they are deviating this far from standard UNIX practices... then... I don't even have anything to say.
.bash_profile loads, you do your work, then you log out. I can't imagine how anyone could not be doing it like this.
You ssh to your account, your
> Someone will probably find a way around it, but it's not as silly as you'd think.
I already have. When the bootloader loads the OS, conveniently forget to load the signature-checking code.
This is why TPM is being forced down our throats. When the end user has power over how the computer works, he can do evil things like write his own OS and cut M$ out of the equation. We can't have that, now can we.